Rams

“At first it charmed me and then it snuck up and punched me in the gut emotionally. That doesn’t happen a lot. It really caught me off guard.”—Tom McCarthy, director of Spotlight

One of the best-reviewed films of 2016 to date, this dry comedy captures the nobility of ordinary people weathering tragic and absurd circumstances as they play out in a secluded valley in Iceland. Two brothers haven’t spoken to each other in four decades, despite living side-by-side, tending to their respective prized sheep. When a lethal disease attacks the livestock, they each attempt their own solution, eventually realizing that they have to come together to save their sheep, and themselves, from extinction. (93 mins., DCP)